Summer 2005 Must-Reads

[TheSoCalledPrep]

Prep
I Am Charlotte Simmons
The Ivy Chronicles

^^ All WONDERFUL books... now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

[southerncutie]

Prep so good..
I just finished English as A Second Language, For Better, For Worse
Then I have Dante's Club andof course Harry Potter..

 

[CoreeGirl]

I loved Prep but can't get through I Am Charlotte Simonns, I have a hard time thinking that it is a man writing about a teenage girl's life.
English as A Second Language was a fun read.
What is The Ivy Chronicles?

I read so much and it gets expensive but my library will special order my books from other libraries in the area and send me an e-mail when they get there, which is very cool.

 

[MulletProof]

Kafka on the shore by haruki murakami..or norweigan wood, anything really. it's almost like everyone's read something from him, I feel like such a loser.. i cant start reading him once he's won the nobel prize

also more banana yoshimoto, and i should really begin with that Harry Potter

 

[pointup]

please, lets stop the arguing...


for me..
i want to read
100 years of solitude
walden
anna karenina
angels and demons

... and perhaps discover some new great books.

 

[jen88]

Right now I'm reading Bergdorf blondes by Plum Sykes, it's a great book. I really recommend it, it's so funny.

 

[__neversummer]

The new Chuck Pahlaniuk, Haunted. Also I'm reading alot of Hunter S Thompson right now, I just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and I'm about to start The Rum Diary.

 

[CoreeGirl]

I have been reading a lot of non-fiction and memoirs about women in the Middle East lately but I got The Secret History of the Pink Carnation from the library and it is fluffy and fun but so well written. It is about a graduate student of history in London who is researching English spies during the 19th century. She finds letters and journals and a fun and romantic story ensues. It was nice to read something light but not dumb. It was the author's first book and she did a very good job transitioning between time periods.

 

[morgan38]

If you like microeconomics (you probably don't but just in case), Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner is really interesting.

 

[jadedomega]

Steinbeck's East of Eden
Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

 

[CoreeGirl]

If you like microeconomics (you probably don't but just in case), Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner is really interesting.

I've seen really interesting reviews for this and have been meaning to pick it up. Hopefully it will go on sale somewhere, I can't pay full price for hardcovers when it only takes me a few hours to read a book.

I read a little bit of everything, history, literature, French lit, sociology, chick lit

 

[MissAnia]

"Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

 

[Cosette]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
On the Road - Jack Kerouac

 

[pinkillumination]

angels and demons

... .

The best one by Dan Brown so far ..

 

[cbcb]

Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

Great to read outdoors or on the subway in New York on a sweltering, inverted summer day! (And traveling.)

To that I'll add The Dancing Matrix (by a Harvard health person), somehow a fascinating story of how viruses arose. Wonderful writing.

And while we're here, I really enjoy a classic or two in nonfiction, like Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle while traveling (he travels and details all flora and fauna he sees), some plant book by Culpepper (or the one used in the index at botanical.com), or even Marco Polo while traveling. (Gives an adventurous aspect to wherever you're going and whatever you're doing. As a plus, these nonfiction classics are 'dense reads' so a smallish book can occupy a LOT of time.)

For nonfiction, anything by Martin Amis. Particularly 'The Information' (not a new book or anything). And the audiobooks thereof.

 

[travolta]

Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1 ... true poetry

 

[8GreenEyes8]

I love the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books! They make me laugh so much. And the new one just came out, I got it today. It's called "Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers." (Boy entrancers = false eyelashes, according to Georgia) .

Don't expect this to be a very serious insightful book or anything, it's a very light read that is absolutely hilarious. I definitely recommend it.

 

[snowqueen]

^^ i used to read those books, but i havent read the last few are they good ??

 

[8GreenEyes8]

^^ i used to read those books, but i havent read the last few are they good ??

Well, i didn't really like the "Away Laughing on a Fast Camel" as much as the earlier ones. This is the one that came out right before the last one. But I think the last one is very good again. Really, I love all of them though...

 

[kween]

Oh man, Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence is probably my favourite book. It's about these people that get hit by a nuclear bomb and their children mutate and adapt to the new Earth. I hope i didn't scare you guys off, lol, it's actually a reeeeally good book. At one point i even cried! It's like a children's drama or something, i found it in the children's section of my library lol. So is Feather Boy, by Nicky Singer, also from the children's section. :laughing: And the Gossip Girl series by Cecily Von Ziegesar was really good too. I think it's one of the things that brought me more into the whole fashion scene... Ya, those three are my faves!